UMass Lowell Libraries has added the AES (Audio Engineering Society) E-Library as an annual subscription online database available to all faculty, students, and staff. Access is offered from both on campus and remotely. Links to the database can be found on the library’s website Music databases page or in the alphabet menu on the website home page.

The AES (Audio Engineering Society) E-Library contains over 13,000 fully searchable PDF files documenting the progression of audio research from 1953 to the present day. The E-library includes every AES paper published at a convention, conference or in the peer-reviewed AES Journal. The E-Library also contains Standards Documents, Technical Documents, and Anthologies and Collections.

The Audio Engineering Society is the only professional society devoted exclusively to audio technology. Founded in the United States in 1948, the AES has grown to become an international organization that unites audio engineers, creative artists, scientists and students worldwide by promoting advances in audio and disseminating new knowledge and research.

Many research papers presented at conventions are ultimately published in the peer-reviewed Journal of the Audio Engineering Society. Other convention papers and conference proceedings are compiled in the online AES E-Library.

In collaboration with some of the world’s most famous museums, Google recently launched its Art Project web site. Applying its Street-View technology within museums, the site allows visitors to virtually
explore galleries within seventeen major museums from around the world, such as MoMA, The Frick, Versailles, Uffizi, Tate, and Van Gogh. In addition, Artwork View enables incredable close-up zooming capablilities for selected paintings. Finally, additional educational information is provided for each of the selected works.

Another feature of the site allows users to create their own collections. The ‘Create an Artwork Collection’ feature allows users to save specific views of any of the 1000+ artworks and build their own personalized collection. Comments can be added to each painting and the whole collection can then be shared with others.

Current partners in the project include the following museums:

Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin – Germany

Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian, Washington DC – USA

The Frick Collection, NYC – USA

Gemäldegalerie, Berlin – Germany

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC – USA

MoMA, The Museum of Modern Art, NYC – USA

Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid – Spain

Museo Thyssen – Bornemisza, Madrid – Spain

Museum Kampa, Prague – Czech Republic

National Gallery, London – UK

Palace of Versailles – France

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam – The Netherlands

The State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg – Russia

State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow – Russia

Tate Britain, London – UK

Uffizi Gallery, Florence – Italy

Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam – The Netherlands

For more information about the project, view this FAQ page. Access to the site has been added to the Library website’s Art Databases page.

Through UMass Lowell Library’s subscription IOPscience access is now provided to the complete online archive of PhysicsWorld, the internationally renowned membership magazine of the Institute of Physics.

Physics World is widely known as one of the world’s best physics magazines, bringing together the pick of stories from the worlds of research, industry and education every month. The Physics World Archive comprises more than 11,000 articles covering news, features, commentary and reviews from every issue of Physics World since the magazine’s launch in October 1998. It covers physics in its broadest possible sense, and offers real insight into the key breakthroughs in the field over the last 22 years.

The Physics World Archive is normally only available to institutions by subscription, but has now been made available to subscribers of IOPscience extra at no additional cost.

The Cochrane Library, published and hosted by Wiley InterScience, is a collection of six databases in medicine and other healthcare specialities that contain different types of high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making.

At its core is the collection of Cochrane Reviews, a database of systematic reviews and meta-analyses which summarize and interpret the results of medical research.

A seventh database in the Cochrane Library provides information about groups in The Cochrane Collaboration.

The Cochrane Collaboration, established in 1993, is an international network of people helping healthcare providers, policy makers, patients, their advocates and carers, make well-informed decisions about human health care by preparing, updating and promoting the accessibility of Cochrane Reviews – over 4,000 so far, published online in the Cochrane Library.

Cochrane Reviews are unique because they are both produced by, and are relevant to, everyone interested in the effects of health care. Contributors are a mix of volunteers and paid staff who are affiliated to the organisation through Cochrane: healthcare subject-related review groups, thematic Networks – called ‘fields’ – groups concerned with the methodology of systematic reviews, and regional centers. Many are world leaders in their field of medicine, health policy, research methodology or consumer advocacy, and our entities are situated in some of the world’s best academic and medical institutions.

UML Libraries has just purchased online access to the 2008 2nd edition of the New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. This is an 8-volume set available online that includes additional quarterly article updates.

Originally published in 1894 and later revised in 1923 and again as a “New” four-volume set in 1987, the Palgrave Dictionary of Economics has continuously drawn together eminent contributors from across the spectrum of methodological and ideological schools to produce an consistently valuable work of reference that has contained many individual classic essays of enduring importance.

In 2008, Palgrave Macmillan published The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd edition, edited by Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume. While some classic articles from the 1987 were retained, around 80% of the text was either entirely new or substantially rewritten to reflect the depth of change within the discipline between the editions. This new edition retains the tradition of bringing together the world’s most influential economists (including 25 Nobel Laureates in Economics) writing in their own voice on their areas of expertise, but in its online incarnation it has married this tradition with the benefits of a dynamic resource that is updated with new and revised articles on a quarterly basis.

The online edition not only provides unlimited-user access to the 8-volume print edition but does so using the full advantages of dynamic web functionality:

offers excellent search and browse facilities, both full text and advanced

contains hyperlinked cross-references within articles

features carefully selected and maintained links to related sites

enables users to bookmark searches and articles, along with their own notes, in My Dictionary, or add links to articles on social bookmarking sites

UMass Lowell Libraries has added Credo Reference as a new online resource.

Credo Reference is an award-winning online database that allows users the ability to search across hundreds of reference titles from over 70 different publishers covering every major topic, including art, medicine, history, technology, literature and more. Overall, the collection contains over 3 million entries; 200,000 audio pronunciation files; 40,000+ art, science, and medical images; and 90,000 atlas images of places and geographic features throughout the world, all fully integrated and intelligently cross-linked.

For the next two months all of Credo’s 479 reference works will be fully available for UML users. Beginning in June, however, the UML subscription will be limited to following 100 selected reference titles:

Africa and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History

ABC Clio

2008

All Things Chaucer: An Encyclopedia of Chaucer’s World

ABC Clio

2007

Andromeda Encyclopedic Dictionary of World History

Andromeda

2001

Atlas of the Bible, Andromeda

Andromeda

1985

Atlas of the Universe

Philip’s

2003

Black’s Medical Dictionary, 42nd Edition

A&C Black

2009

Bridgeman Art Library Archive

Bridgeman

2008

Bridgeman History of Science

Bridgeman

2006

Britain and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History

ABC Clio

2005

Cambridge Encyclopedia of Child Development

Cambridge UP

2005

Cambridge Handbook of Age and Ageing, The

Cambridge UP

2005

Cambridge Handbook of Consciousness

Cambridge UP

2007

Cambridge Handbook of Psychology and Economic Behaviour, The

Cambridge UP

2006

Cambridge Handbook of Psychology, Health and Medicine

Cambridge UP

2007

Cambridge Handbook of Sociocultural Psychology, The

Cambridge UP

2007

Cambridge Handbook of Violent Behavior and Aggression, The

Cambridge UP

2007

Capstone Encyclopaedia of Business

Wiley

2003

Cassell’s Peoples, Nations and Cultures

Cassell

2005

Chambers Biographical Dictionary

Chambers Harrap

2007

Chambers Dictionary of Literary Characters

Chambers Harrap

2004

Chambers Dictionary of World History

Chambers Harrap

2005

CIA World Factbook

CIA

2009

Collins Dictionary of Biology

Collins

2005

Columbia Encyclopedia

Columbia UP

2008

Companion Encyclopedia of Asian Philosophy

Routledge

2002

Concise Atlas of World History, Andromeda

Andromeda

1997

Conspiracy Theories in American History

ABC Clio

2003

Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World: Media, Industry and Society

Continuum

2003

Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World: Performance and Production

Continuum

2003

Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World: Locations

Continuum

2005

Dorland’s Illustrated Medical Dictionary

Elsevier

2007

Elsevier’s Dictionary of Psychological Theories

Elsevier

2006

Encyclopedia of African History

Routledge

2004

Encyclopedia of Applied Psychology

Elsevier

2004

Encyclopedia of Classical Philosophy

Greenwood

1997

Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science

Wiley

2005

Encyclopedia of Computer Science

Wiley

2003

Encyclopedia of Emancipation and Abolition in the Transatlantic World

M. E. Sharpe

2007

Encyclopedia of Ethics

Routledge

2001

Encyclopedia of Insects

Elsevier

2003

Encyclopedia of Keynesian Economics, An

Edward Elgar

1999

Encyclopedia of Medical Anthropology: Health and Illness in the World’s Cultures

Springer

2004

Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature

Greenwood

2000

Encyclopedia of North American Indians, Houghton Mifflin

Houghton Mifflin

1996

Encyclopedia of Public Choice, The

Springer

2004

Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender

Springer

2003

Encyclopedia of Special Education: A Reference for the Education of the Handicapped and Other Exceptional Children and Adults

Wiley

2007

Encyclopedia of the History of American Management

Continuum

2006

Encyclopedia of the Human Brain

Elsevier

2002

Encyclopedia of the Human Genome

Wiley

2005

Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era, 1760-1850

Routledge

2003

Encyclopedia of the Solar System

Elsevier

2007

Encyclopedia of the United States in the Nineteenth Century

Thomson Gale

2000

Encyclopedia of Urban America: The Cities and Suburbs

ABC Clio

1998

Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace and Conflict

Elsevier

2008

Encyclopedia of Women and Gender: Sex Similarities and Differences and the Impact of Society on Gender

Elsevier

2001

Encyclopedia of Women’s Health

Springer

2004

Encyclopedia of World History

Houghton Mifflin

2001

Encyclopedic Dictionary of Women in Early American Films: 1895-1930, An

Routledge

2005

Faber Companion to 20th Century Popular Music

Faber and Faber

2001

France and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History

ABC Clio

2005

Gender and Education: An Encyclopedia

ABC Clio

2007

Germany and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History

ABC Clio

2005

Great American Court Cases, Gale

Thomson Gale

1999

Guide to the Ancient World, H.W. Wilson

H.W. Wilson

1986

Guns in American Society: An Encyclopedia of History, Politics, Culture, and the Law

ABC Clio

2003

Handbook of Aging and the Social Sciences

Elsevier

2005

Handbook of Environmental Sociology

Greenwood

2001

Handbook of Global Environmental Politics

Edward Elgar

2005

Handbook of Globalisation and Environmental Policy, A

Edward Elgar

2005

Handbook of Research on Teaching the English Language Arts: Sponsored by the International Reading Association and the National Council of Teachers of English

Routledge

2003

Handbook of Research on the Education of Young Children

Routledge

2006

Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music

Harvard UP

2003

Harvard Dictionary of Music

Harvard UP

2003

Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures: Continental Europe and its Empires

Edinburgh UP

2008

Human Body Book: An Illustrated Guide to Its Structure, Function and Disordershttp://www.credoreference.com/book/dkbody

The Annual Reviews’ new collection of economics journals has been added to the UML Library collection. The three new journals — Annual Review of Economics, Annual Review of Financial Economics and Annual Review of Resource Economics — summarize developments in their respective fields and reflect the advancement of economics as a critical scientific discipline.

The new titles are edited by leading economists Tim Bresnahan (Stanford), Andrew Lo (MIT), and Gordon Rausser (UC Berkeley), and Nobel prize winners Kenneth Arrow (Stanford) and Robert Merton (Harvard Business School). Annual Reviews has brought together 150 renowned scholars to address an interdisciplinary audience, from economics specialists to those with primary interests including public policy, business, social and natural sciences.

Annual Reviews, a nonprofit publisher that synthesizes critical research literature, has offered comprehensive collections of critical reviews since 1932. Its highly cited journals help readers to evaluate and select from the increasing wealth of primary literature.

The Twayne Authors Series combines Twayne’s U.S. Authors, Twayne’s English Authors, and Twayne’s World Authors. Each of these individual titles provides literary criticism for approximately 200 authors, bringing the total number of authors covered in the Series to nearly 600.

The Twayne Series offers criticism by scholars on hundreds of years of literature–from ancient Greece to the modern era. It provides critical introductions to the lives and works of writers, to the history and influence of literary movements, or the development of literary genres.

Each title entry in Twayne Authors is structured in a consistent format: All titles feature elements such as a chronology, a biography, a comprehensive critical analysis, and an annotated bibliography. Major works of authors are discussed and analyzed in depth. The discussions of each author in the series generally cover between 175-200 printed pages.

Three primary search paths offer different approaches to discovering information about authors and their works:

Authors A-Z. Enables the user to quickly select an author name or topic from a comprehensive list to find critical discussion, chronologies, bibliographies, and other information on an author’s works and literary career.

In Depth Search. Enables the user to design a specific search using such criteria as Author Name, Genre, Time Period, Gender, Nationality (for Twayne’s World Authors), and Full Text.

Research Ideas. View curriculum related topics then select from a variety of authors writing within those topics as research starting points.

International in scope, the Sage Handbooks offer critical analysis within a discipline or sub-discipline. Created for academics, researchers, practitioners and advanced postgraduate students, they offer retrospective and prospective overviews, reviewing past and present theory as well as mapping out new directions for the future.

The handbooks cover topics in the following subject areas:

Business and Management

Communication and Media Studies

Criminology and Criminal Justice

Counseling and Social Work

Education

Geography and Urban Studies

Marketing

Politics and International Relations

Psychology

Public Policy and Public Administration

Research Methods and Evaluation

Science, Technical and Medical

Sociology

They can be browsed by title or searched individually, in combination with other handbook titles, or included in a search of all Sage Reference titles along with the nearly 50 Encyclopedia and other Handbook titles subscribed to by UML Libraries. Searches can also be limited to sidebars, images, and/or tables.

Access to this database can be found on the Library’s web site either from the front page alphabet list of resources or from several Database Subject pages plus the eBooks page.

UML Libraries has added Naxos Music Library as a new annual subscription. UML users can now listen to a slection of streaming music from over 39,000 CDs containing more than 500,000 tracks with an average of 1,000 new CD titles added monthly.

Access is currently limited to 15 simultaneous connnections. If we find that users are getting blocked out, then we will increase our user limit as needed.

NML consists primarily of classical music with a good selection of world music and spoken word as well as a small selection of jazz. The aim of NML is to eventually offer access to every work of classical music ever recorded.

Resources offered by NML include synopses of over 700 operas, a pronunciation guide for composer and artist names and a glossary of musical terms. There is also a weekly podcast about new additions to the library and other musical topics. Archived podcasts are available under the Resources tab. A comprehensive online encyclopedia of classical music is in development.

Users can sign up for individual accounts under Playlists by clicking on the “login” link and then “sign up.” Students can create their own personal playlists that can be exported but can’t be viewed by other users. Professors on the other hand can create shared playlists for students to access. For more information about this functionality, please contact joseph_fisher@uml.edu.

In addition to allowing subscribers to listen to recordings NML provides playing times of individual works or movements, detailed music notes, and opera libretti. The library can be searched by composer, work and label; by keyword search and by a sophisticated advanced search engine with up to 10 combined search criteria.